Mike:
My mother smoked for 50 years; cancer found in her right lung in 2004. Brought her to Nashville from Chattanooga for surgery; they took the lower lobe of the lung. Then she had three months of chemotherapy; Mom was sick as a dog and lost all her hair.
It is a humbling thing for a son to shave the last of his mother's hair off her head . . .
Mom has done well, but the cancer reoccurred in November of last year. A lymph node was taken out in January of this year and then 25 days of radiation treatments in February. She was sick and weak from all of that, but is now doing better.
The point of my story is for you to remember her experience.
If you stop smoking, may it NEVER be your experience.
I honestly and hopefully wish you the very,very best.
God bless